3 Lin Yutang Quotes on Time

Lin Yutang quotes on time

5. 'One can learn such a lot and enjoy such a lot in seventy years, and three generations is a long, long time to see human follies and acquire human wisdom. Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough to witness the changes of fashion and morals and politics through the rise and fall of three generations should be perfectly satisfied to rise from his seat and go away saying, 'It was a good show,' when the curtain falls.' (p. 23-24)

9. 'A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.' (p. 163)

17. If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.